Go Home and Grow Tomatoes

 had been motivated to take responsibility for my breast cancer journey when chemotherapy treatment was prescribed for me through my fear of my perception around chemotherapy treatment. Chemotherapy treatment seemed incongruent when I chose to believe that there was no cancer left in my body after my mastectomy. I did however need the flexibility to change what I did so that my breast cancer wouldn’t return. I used my imagination to use the processes to change my cellular memories so that I could believe that my cellular memories were cleared and that I could live life as if my breast cancer would not return. I chose to believe that when I took responsibility for my breast cancer it was structured around the five success principles.

          The first principle of success towards reaching your potential is to know your outcome is to know your desires and set your goals. I chose to model the new thought pattern in the book; You can heal your life by Louise Hay, so that I could make a belief around my desired outcome. “It is easy for me to reprogram the computer of my mind. All of life is change, and my mind is ever new.”

My outcome  focus for my breast cancer journey was to release the stress around the drama of my life to have clarity of mind to choose to change the drama of my life into the adventure of my life: To change the energy that governs my molecules that make my cells which combine to make my organs that make my body work: To clear the negative energy to positive energy within my cells: to change a negative mindset to a positive mindset: to change my body to support the change in my cellular memory to healthy happy cellular memories, to build  my resistance around my health through strengthening my mind  to strengthen my body to choose my emotions that best serve me and develop my spirituality through self awareness and awareness of what is.

          The second success principle is to take the action to achieve your outcome, by taking responsibility for what you focus on. For what you focus on is what you get.  I focused on taking small steps towards my bigger goals. I allowed myself to be open to what is and opened my heart to finding the how of what I believed worked for me. I have chosen another new thought pattern from “You can heal your life,” by Louise Hay. “I lovingly forgive and release all of the past. I choose to fill my world with joy. I love and approve of myself.” That served me through my breast cancer journey.  I used the processes for change that I learnt from Brandon Bay’s Intensive weekend workshop that I subsequently practiced through her recorded guided meditation CD’s.

          The third success principle is to use self acuity to have awareness around the congruency of your actions to ensure that they are taking you towards your outcome. When choosing to do meditation and journey work for my breast cancer healing journey I would refer back to what I had learnt in the Silva mind control seminar some fifteen years earlier, to check that I could trust my belief that I was on the right path. I noticed that as my journey progressed I was beginning to feel happier. I adopted another one of Louise Hay’s new thought patterns to make a belief that “I am important. I do count. I now nourish myself with love and with joy. I allow others the freedom to be who they are. We are all safe and free.”

          The fourth success principle is about having the behavioural flexibility to change what doesn’t serve you to achieve your outcome to what is resourceful to get the results that you want. I did that earlier on in my journey where I chose not to go with the prescribed chemotherapy treatment. When I thought about me having chemotherapy my mind filled with distressing thoughts and I felt unease. I was open to listen to what was on offer and what could be. I weighed up my options that were presented to me around probability based on statistics. I knew I had to do something differently or the same may happen again. I chose to trust my feelings and my inner knowing that I would choose the best way forward for me.

          The fifth principle is about creating within you a psychology and physiology of excellence to create the result you want.  To quote Louise Hay, “only by practicing over and over do we learn the new and make it a natural part of us.” I learned and practiced what I had learned and learned some more. I felt better and better every day. People told me how much better I looked every day. Psychiatrist RD Laing says, “Change your body change your mind, change your mind change your body.”   

Reminiscing I realise that my cancer journey opened the magic door of discovery for me. I discovered through my imagination in my mind’s eye the door to my soul. I found that the energy that governs the molecules that make the cells combine to make the organs that make me work. I discovered that this energy that is so powerful expands my being to more than just my human form. Who we really are is an energy of pure potential made up of love, light and limitless possibility and what prevents us from tapping into our real selves is negative emotions  fear and self imposed limitations. Learning how to overcome fear and self imposed limitations led me to access the feelings of love, joy, gratitude and forgiveness that have empowered my very being. My road to discovery culminated with  finding  a small lump the size of a pea that signalled me to face my greatest fear that  turned me towards my journey of self discovery.  I have learned through my Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) training with Robb Whitewood that our journey in life is about travelling from the present to the future passing goal posts on the way. The vehicle we use to get there is the methodology of travel for our journey. “The vehicle is frequently inherited from family, friends, cultures, socio-economics or religion. Some people choose to walk, others run, and others just drive.  It can be of course be traded in at any time you choose.” Through using our imagination we can discover our defining moments and go back in time to change how we reacted to those moments. We can change our thoughts, our feelings and our beliefs to change our vehicle and our state to enjoy the journey of adventure that is called life.  I learned to make changes at an unconscious level for change at a conscious level. I trusted my subconscious to lead me to the appropriate change methodology that I needed at the time. I believe that through using my imagination I have entered the rabbit hole, to deepen my self awareness experience to feel better, to be better and better every day in every way. 

Albert Einstein says, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

I had used my imagination to take me from my greatest fear of having breast cancer happen to me towards my greatest discovery that I could take the responsibility for how I reacted to my life’s happenings where I discovered my greatest success that through using my imagination I could change my mind to change my body to feel better and better every day.